An analytical and numerical study of a dynamically accelerating semi-infinite crack in a linear viscoelastic material
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In a previous paper, a general method was presented for constructing the solution to the problem of a semi-infinite, mode III crack propagating dynamically through an infinite, general linear viscoelastic body. The only restrictions placed upon the crack tip speed were that it have constant sign and in magnitude not exceed the glassy shear wave speed. In the present contribution, those previous analytical results are applied to a study of dynamic unsteady crack growth in a linear viscoelastic body. In particular, a numerical algorithm for computing the stress intensity factor is given along with example simulations of running cracks using the Achenbach-Chao viscoelastic model and a stress intensity factor (SIF) fracture criterion. We also compare the transient SIF with the dynamic steady state SIF, and examine the transition to constant crack speed for a dynamically accelerating crack in a viscoelastic material.
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